Mount Gretna’s famous ice cream spot, the Jigger Shop, opens for the season on Saturday, May 11.

Until Memorial Day, the Jigger Shop at 202 Gettysburg Ave., Mount Gretna, will be open from noon to 9 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays only (May 11-12, May 18-19, and May 25-26). The Jigger Shop will also be open Memorial Day (May 27) from noon to 9 p.m.

After Memorial Day, the Jigger Shop’s hours shift to Tuesday through Sunday, from noon to 9 p.m.

A peek through the woods at the Jigger Shop in Mount Gretna. (Will Trostel)

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The Jigger Shop has been a Mount Gretna tradition since 1895. The restaurant and ice cream parlor was purchased by Kyle Seyfert and his family from longtime owner Chuck Allwein in May 2018.

A patron waits at the Jigger Shop ice cream counter to place an order. The Jigger Shop shares its name with a hallmark sundae and eponymous topping – a Jigger is, by definition, “French vanilla ice cream with your choice of chocolate or butterscotch, marshmallow and Jigger nuts.” (Will Trostel)

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